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From: The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Date: 20060821
Author:Lynch, Kevin

Byline: Kevin Lynch The Capital Times

SPRING GREEN -- The swords lance Julius Caesar's body, one after another. Blood spurts and drains, from the souls of men and women of Rome. By the play's end, every audience member must have felt, to some degree, like Romans: uplifted, inspired, triumphant, betrayed and forsaken.

"Oh world, thou is the forest to this heart," utters Caesar's closest ally, Mark Antony, as sanity seems to have wandered into the wilds. This is the crux of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and, as Caius Cassius says, "How many ages hence will this ...

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